The question for 2019 isn’t: who will win? It’s: WTF?

As we embark on a year in which the state of electioneering will be a barometer for democracy, there are questions bigger than the horse race.

Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh are headed into October's election at a time when the all-bets-are-off element is now required of every election story written before the actual results are in. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meades

There was a time—and it wasn’t even as long ago as the last millennium—when the first column of an election year would open with a disclaimer that politics is full of uncertainties and then proceed to flagrantly disregard them by prognosticating anyway.

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Unless Trudeau plans to be out on these streets, fighting against police brutality or in cabinet drafting legislation to curb police powers, his, and all the other white voices of his ilk, have no merit here.

'I do agree that things need to be implemented as quickly as possible. We could've done this a lot sooner. The good news is that we’re doing it now and announcing it today,' says Transport Minister Marc Garneau.